Cue Beach Boys Music

Talk about out of touch. Apparently the Left thinks they’re going to get some traction out of a claim that the Pentagon and/or the White House has a plan afoot for airstrikes against Iran.

Many military officers and specialists, however, view the saber rattling with alarm. A strike at Iran, they warn, would at best just delay its nuclear program by a few years but could inflame international opinion against the United States, particularly in the Muslim world and especially within Iran, while making U.S. troops in Iraq targets for retaliation.

Any real patriotic American over the age of 30 secretly delights at the thought of doing what should have been done in 1979. Add the factor that their current President makes the Ayatollah Khomeini seem more like the Dalai Lama and I can’t see how the Post could expect people to take this as anything but good news.

And airstrikes would certainly be preferable to getting “bogged down in a quagmire” of a “ground war in Asia,” right? But maybe they’re just afraid that the airstrikes might hit something other than an aspirin factory. Or maybe the left would would prefer American soldiers to die in the desert of Iran again.